Re: [OSM-talk] Could we just pause any wikidata edits for a month or two?

2017-10-24 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 25.10.2017 08:09, Златовратский Павел wrote: > Well. That's the problem in your position: you point to specific > problems and ask to stop whole process. Which "process" exactly are you talking about? There have been many processes mentioned in this discussion. > I met such behaviour with

Re: [OSM-talk] Local knowledge (was: Could we just pause any wikidata edits for a month or two?)

2017-10-24 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 25.10.2017 08:22, Tomas Straupis wrote: > Yuri later tried to change the whole theme from "osm-wikidata-sql > tool" to "new general qa tool" in the same thread. And now into "is local knowledge really always necessary". I'm sure before too long Yuri will be starting to discuss whether what

Re: [OSM-talk] Could we just pause any wikidata edits for a month or two?

2017-10-24 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 25.10.2017 05:53, Ryszard Mikke wrote: > You mean "stop any editing, More like "stop any Wikidata-related large-scale editing or setting up of tools that have the intent of causing Wikidata-related large-scale editing". It's totally ok for individuals to add Wikidata links to things they

Re: [OSM-talk] Could we just pause any wikidata edits for a month or two?

2017-10-24 Thread Tomas Straupis
2017-10-25 8:56 GMT+03:00 Yuri Astrakhan wrote: > Roland, thanks for the links. Local knowledge is very important, but lets > not make it into a sacred cow at the cost of common sense. I have not been > to every single street in New York City. I am nearly 100% sure that all > editors has edited ob

Re: [OSM-talk] Could we just pause any wikidata edits for a month or two?

2017-10-24 Thread Златовратский Павел
25.10.2017 7:46, Tomas Straupis пишет: But this topic has already listed numerous problems with your automated (or semiautomated) edits all around, ignoring local communities etc. You have been asked to stop numerous times. Well. That's the problem in your position: you point to specific pr

Re: [OSM-talk] Could we just pause any wikidata edits for a month or two?

2017-10-24 Thread Yuri Astrakhan
Roland, thanks for the links. Local knowledge is very important, but lets not make it into a sacred cow at the cost of common sense. I have not been to every single street in New York City. I am nearly 100% sure that all editors has edited objects that were near their location, but that they have

Re: [OSM-talk] Welcome_to_OpenStreetMap_users ?

2017-10-24 Thread Maarten Deen
On 2017-10-25 07:31, Daniel Koć wrote: W dniu 25.10.2017 o 07:08, Roland Olbricht pisze: See https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Welcome_to_Wikipedia_users#Original_research_always_wins Why is this page named "Welcome_to_Wikipedia_users"? Can we just move it to "Welcome_to_OpenStreetMap_users"

Re: [OSM-talk] Welcome_to_OpenStreetMap_users ?

2017-10-24 Thread Michał Brzozowski
I think this is to contrast our rules with their - quite different - rules. But maybe you're right. Obviously in the old times much of our users were Wikipedians. Michał 25.10.2017 07:36 "Daniel Koć" napisał(a): > W dniu 25.10.2017 o 07:08, Roland Olbricht pisze: > >> See https://wiki.openstree

[OSM-talk] Welcome_to_OpenStreetMap_users ?

2017-10-24 Thread Daniel Koć
W dniu 25.10.2017 o 07:08, Roland Olbricht pisze: See https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Welcome_to_Wikipedia_users#Original_research_always_wins Why is this page named "Welcome_to_Wikipedia_users"? Can we just move it to "Welcome_to_OpenStreetMap_users" or there are some not obvious problem

Re: [OSM-talk] Could we just pause any wikidata edits for a month or two?

2017-10-24 Thread Roland Olbricht
But what you are saying is very strange if I understood you correctly.  What I read here is that the only people allowed to fix things are those that know ALL tags and their meaning. See https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Welcome_to_Wikipedia_users#Original_research_always_wins Or similar s

Re: [OSM-talk] Could we just pause any wikidata edits for a month or two?

2017-10-24 Thread Tomas Straupis
2017-10-25 6:53 GMT+03:00 Ryszard Mikke wrote: > You mean "stop any editing, cause we need two weeks or two years to make > sure refs are correct and we don't have any other means to remember about > the problem than to leave some obvious mistake everyone will trip over until > we are sure about th

Re: [OSM-talk] Could we just pause any wikidata edits for a month or two?

2017-10-24 Thread Ryszard Mikke
On 24 October 2017 at 17:19, Tomas Straupis wrote: > 2017-10-24 15:56 GMT+03:00 Ryszard Mikke wrote: > > Why, in this case is it better to have Wikipedia links in OSM point to > > disambiguation page instead of link Hillfort 1 in OSM to Hillfort 1 in > > Wikipedia, link Hillfort 2 accordingly and

Re: [OSM-talk] Could we just pause any wikidata edits for a month or two?

2017-10-24 Thread Steve Doerr
On 24/10/2017 18:07, Yuri Astrakhan wrote: On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 11:19 AM, Tomas Straupis mailto:tomasstrau...@gmail.com>> wrote: 2017-10-24 15:56 GMT+03:00 Ryszard Mikke wrote: > Why, in this case is it better to have Wikipedia links in OSM point to > disambiguation page inst

Re: [OSM-talk] New OSM Quick-Fix service

2017-10-24 Thread Yuri Astrakhan
Ryszard, I have disabled the fixing from the "embed" mode - you can still open the query (using "edit query"), click the "run" button (blue play button), and fix things from there. In my spare time, I am still working on the next version, based on all the useful feedback: * It will be easy to find

Re: [OSM-talk] Could we just pause any wikidata edits for a month or two?

2017-10-24 Thread Yuri Astrakhan
On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 11:19 AM, Tomas Straupis wrote: > 2017-10-24 15:56 GMT+03:00 Ryszard Mikke wrote: > > Why, in this case is it better to have Wikipedia links in OSM point to > > disambiguation page instead of link Hillfort 1 in OSM to Hillfort 1 in > > Wikipedia, link Hillfort 2 accordingl

Re: [OSM-talk] How to create custom online map from OpenStreetMap

2017-10-24 Thread Daniel Koć
W dniu 23.10.2017 o 22:06, Andy Townsend pisze: On 22/10/2017 18:47, Carlos Cámara wrote: I would like to create a custom map for online use that loads OSM data but displays it in different ways as the standard, cyclemap, transport... layers. The most important question is: how do you want it

Re: [OSM-talk] Could we just pause any wikidata edits for a month or two?

2017-10-24 Thread Tomas Straupis
2017-10-24 15:56 GMT+03:00 Ryszard Mikke wrote: > Why, in this case is it better to have Wikipedia links in OSM point to > disambiguation page instead of link Hillfort 1 in OSM to Hillfort 1 in > Wikipedia, link Hillfort 2 accordingly and fix Wikipedia doubts in > Wikipedia? So that the case is

Re: [OSM-talk] Could we just pause any wikidata edits for a month or two?

2017-10-24 Thread Ryszard Mikke
Please, PLEASE, stick to the case. The case is: 1) there are two hillforts, let's call them Hillfort 1 and Hillfort 2 for simplicity. 2) both have big information tables on the ground, with their names on them 3) so they are named Hillfort 1 and Hillfort 2 in OSM and nobody objects that. 4) both h

Re: [OSM-talk] Misrepresentation of OSM by HOT?

2017-10-24 Thread Christoph Hormann
On Monday 23 October 2017, Frederik Ramm wrote: > [...] > > What would be *your* words to say "Hey everybody, I saw this, and I > think it is bad and needs to change"? What choice of language would > adequately express your being upset about what you have seen, without > being denounced as a poison

Re: [OSM-talk] New OSM Quick-Fix service

2017-10-24 Thread Ryszard Mikke
Even without disabling - what a better tool fixes, JOSM's autofix won't find... On 17 October 2017 at 09:50, Yuri Astrakhan wrote: > Well, you kind of can fix one with the other - by introducing a better > tool and disabling some of the autofixes in JOSM (very easy to do). A more > complex appr

Re: [OSM-talk] Misrepresentation of OSM by HOT?

2017-10-24 Thread joost schouppe
As a European who is frequently annoyed with both the harshness of some Europeans, as well as the oversensitiveness for criticism from Americans, I agree with both Frederik and Mikel. I do read a clear out-group perspective in how Christoph wrote about this subject. This to me is still strange. In